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Privacy

  • Who can capture your information?
  • What and where your information is stored?
  • Do you have control over these problems?

Privacy is not the same as anonymity or security.

Sites​

  • awesome-privacy | GitHub @pluja
    • A list of alternative apps/services that prioritize privacy
    • I have to admit that I have a lot of work to do and a massive change to my workflow if I strictly follow this list
  • Let's build a Chrome extension that steals everything
    • Steals without user awareness, including cookies, history, screenshots, user navigation, and page traffic. Capturing keystrokes, input, clipboard, and geolocation. Also, create stealth tabs by taking over unused tabs to do bad things.
  • Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought (HN)
    • Fingerprinting: identify users through unique combinations of configurations, e.g. browser version, CPUs, OS, screen size, etc.
    • Chrome / Chromium: doesn't have any inbuilt protection against fingerprinting
    • Firefox: only when privacy.resistFingerprinting is enabled, the fingerprint is masked
    • Tor Browser: secure against fingerprinting
  • Email Obfuscation: What still works in 2023?
    • Different techniques to obfuscate how an email address is displayed on a website, to prevent bots spamming it
    • Different techniques for mailto link vs plaintext email address